The Swiss fintech market grew by 62 percent in 2018. This emerges from a recently published study by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, published on 27th February. Lucerne University of Applied Sciences conducted a thorough review of the Swiss financial market for the fourth time. The report, entitled IFZ…
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The Mobile Bank N26 had made its first proper financial statements. Then there were the things you wanted to know, quasi one to one in there earnings, costs, cash burn. A little more difficult, the same research now at Scalable Capital. And yet based on various British and German registries,…
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Following their pilot project, an Ethereum-based P2P energy market for end consumers, Lition is currently working on solving the problems of public blockchains to end the niche image of the technology. For this purpose, Blockchain & Energie Startup is working together with SAP on a hybrid public-private blockchain solution, with…
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Founded in Switzerland and now based in Berlin, InsurTech startup wefox will receive an investment of 110 million euros in a series B round. This is the highest amount ever paid by a German insurance startup. The 110 million euro investment for wefox is the largest Series B financing round…
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The incorporation of innovation in the corporate culture, investments in high technology and solid collaborations are shaping the digital landscape in a region where consumers consider that convenience, personalized service and new technologies are differentiating factors. The Visa Innovation Center has published The State of Innovation in Latin America, the…
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A Forbes ranking, created in cooperation with the Statista portal, assigns the Challenger Bank N26 top positions in several countries. At the center of the survey on the ranking “The World’s Best Banks 2019” was customer satisfaction. More than 40,000 people in 23 countries were surveyed by Statista for the…
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May we get rid of two or three sentences on the background of the acquisition of the Frankfurt MHB bank by the Berlin-based startup Raisin (“World Savings”)? Yes? We may? Great! Well, that was a nice story, as it was read yesterday in various media, so that Raisin initially worried…
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Usually banks buy fintech companies because of their innovations. For once it is the other way around, this bank should now belong to a fintech. They have been working together for a long time, the Berlin Fintech Raisin and the Frankfurt MHB Bank. Because Raisin operates the fixed-term platform Weltsparen,…
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The “vending machine” should make it possible to acquire shares directly from companies without having to register for it. What the Swiss fintech company Alethena, in cooperation with the Zurich-based start-up Ledgy and the legal services provider Lexr, submits as a “stock market”, can be thought of as a mediator…
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The cryptocurrency market is moving towards mainstream adoption. There are several firms that are signing new partnerships with institutions and other firms to increase their presence in the space. Ripple has been working in order to offer financial services to more than 200 firms located around the world. A new…
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